Putin, there can be no winners in a nuclear war

(ANSA) - ROME, AUGUST 01 - "There can be no winners in a nuclear war and it should never be unleashed": said the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, quoted by the Russian state news agency Tass.

"We start from the fact that they cannot be victors in a nuclear war and should never be unleashed, and we support equal and indivisible security for all members of the world community," he continued.

    The president further stated that "as a State party" to the Nuclear Weapons Non-Proliferation Treaty "and one of its custodians, Russia consistently follows the letter and the spirit of the treaty", as reported by Interfax, taking a message from the head of the Kremlin addressed to the participants of a conference to monitor the implementation of the Nuclear Weapons Non-Proliferation Treaty.

"Our obligations deriving from bilateral agreements with the United States on the reduction and limitation of relevant weapons have also been fully respected," Putin said.

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